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Founding member of the Rowers Women’s side earned her first international cap in the win. This past Wednesday, November 20th, Mikiela Nelson became the first female Rower to ever receive an international Cap playing for her country. When the Rowers Women’s team restarted three seasons ago in 2016, the inaugural

The VRC Premier Reserves side lost a heatbreaker at home today, as the visiting Castaway Wanderers scored the winning try in the final minute to earn 23-19 win on the road. The Reserves pack came out strong in the wet conditions, dominating the breakdowns with physical play on both sides

The VRC Rugby Premier side lost a close one at home Saturday, falling to the Castaway Wanderers 25-28 following a controversial last minute try by the visitors. Castaway opened the scoring in the first minute on a wet day at Brockton, springing a winger in space outside, and nailing the

The Rowers prems disappointed the home crowd this Saturday at Brockton, as very fit and well drilled Pacific Pride club – the Western Canada working entity of Canada’s U23 program – scored early and often to beat them 51-14. The nation’s youth gave the Rowers a run, using advantages in

High winds whipped the tree tops around and a warm, driving rain pounded across the bright halogen lights that lit the wide turf pitch that Osaka’s Kamesenryu rugby club called home on the evening that the Rowers Japan World Tour visited to play a friendly. The urban rugby club that

The community service portion of the Five Nations Dream Tournament saw the touring clubs split into groups and sent to various Japanese public schools to do some simple rugby demos and be generally well received by attentive, engaged children. This author was dispatched with half a dozen tour mates to

The hard rain of Typhoon Hagibis was already driving as daylight broke over Tokyo. The England v. France World Cup Group Stage fixture that we had come for was cancelled, but the Rowers weren’t about to let mediocre costumes go to waste. In comical berets and waistcoats and bowler caps,

BIG thanks to Rowers sideline photography crew Sarah, Sharon and Shayanne!

A great effort went to waste at home Saturday as a high-impact Rowing Club offense was unable to outpace a few, poorly timed structural lapses in defense, causing the Prems to come up up short against the Meralomas. The Rowers got on the board first as winger Ryan Brett-Williams was